HighlightManager - how to enable F3 functionality

Created April 19, 2006 01:33

Hi

Using the HighlightManager as suggested by Bas, I'm now able to highlight the elements that I want to:

HighlightManager#addOccurrenceHighlights(Editor, PsiElement[], TextAttributes, boolean, ArrayList]]>)

One thing I haven't figured out, though, is how to enable IDEA's F3 functionality (Find Next) for my highlighted elements.

Does anybody have an idea how I can achieve this? Or maybe someone from JB could explain the implementation of the F3 Next action provided by IDEA, in case that would open a (back)door for me.

Thanks for any help. It's the last missing piece I need...

etienne

6 comments

ANONYMOUS

Created April 19, 2006 11:06

etienne wrote:

One thing I haven't figured out, though, is how to enable IDEA's F3 functionality (Find Next) for my highlighted elements.

Do this after the highlight:

Bas

Etienne Studer

Created April 19, 2006 19:15

Thanks. It works great!

Unfortunately, there are no buttons available that allow me to mark the answer as correct :(

etienne

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Etienne Studer

Created April 19, 2006 23:24

Thanks. It works great!

Unfortunately, there are no buttons available that allow me to mark the answer as correct :(

etienne

Bas Leijdekkers

Created April 20, 2006 11:14

That's because I posted that via NNTP. But I don't mind, I'm not here to collects points.

Bas

Breandan Considine

Created July 27, 2017 16:26

Unfortunately this answer is no longer visible. What did it say?

Bas Leijdekkers

Created July 29, 2017 12:50

It was probably something like this:

final FindManager findmanager = FindManager.getInstance(project);
FindModel findmodel = findmanager.getFindNextModel();
if (findmodel == null) {
  findmodel = findmanager.getFindInFileModel();
}
findmodel.setSearchHighlighters(true);
findmanager.setFindWasPerformed();
findmanager.setFindNextModel(findmodel);
application.invokeLater(() -> {
  final WindowManager windowManager = WindowManager.getInstance();
  final StatusBar statusBar = windowManager.getStatusBar(project);
  if (statusBar != null) {
    statusBar.setInfo("Press Escape to remove highlighting");
  }
});

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